How Schlieren imaging works in color, black and white and slow-mo. Get a free audiobook with a 30 day free trial at http://www.audible.com/veritasium Special thanks to Patreon supporters:...
========== A few months ago, I made a video about Schlieren imaging.Now that's a technique used to visualise tiny differences in air either temperature, pressure, composition,so you can see things like the heat that comes off when you light a match.Now in that video I asked you for some ideas for what you'd like to see in this Schlieren setup,and I will be showing you some of those in this video.But I also saw that there was a lot of confusion about how exactly the setup worksand so I want to clear up that confusionbefore we get going. So one thing is this mirror.I said is a parabolic mirror, but then I said you can think of it as a part of a sphereand so people rightly called me out and said well if it's parabolic it can't be part of a sphere. While ...